Word: libelous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining sheets would "deserve the respect and friendship of each other." Last week Publisher Bonfils sued Publishers Howard & Scripps and Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic State Chairman and hard-hitting publisher of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chairman Walker had made a speech in behalf of Governor William...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...
...class of 1923, although he caused more real anxiety among Michigan's faculty than any man who ever lived in Ann Arbor. He used to work on the Michigan Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow...
...this indiscretion People apologized, offered heavy damages, which Lady Louis regally refused. Her counsel, Norman Birkett, explained that her departure for Malta, where her husband is in Naval service, "had given an opportunity for the lying, malignant and poisonous tongues of scandal to wag. . . . The most atrocious libel of which I have any knowledge in all my experience. . . . She had been informed of the identity of the colored man. . . . She has never even...
Publisher Macfadden is supposed to have sunk $7,000,000 into the Graphic?a figure which coincides with the approximate total of libel suits filed against it. (The libel suits were disposed of at a total cost of $5,290.) Three years ago Publisher Macfadden told Editor & Publisher: "It will make a few hundred thousand next year." But it never did. The only feature which ever gave promise of building and holding circulation for the Graphic?Walter Winchell's gossip colyum?was bought away by the Mirror...